School honours two students who bagged nat’l scholarship with personalised stamps

Trichy: Recognising the achievement of two students of class VIII in the National Means Cum-Merit Scholarship (NMMS) examination, Government high school in Thiruvallarai in Trichy district has released postage stamps with their pictures. The personalised postal stamps of India post with the images of Y Rajeswari and R Rohini were released by district chief education officer, S Santhi.
They were among the 6,285 students from across the state who appeared for the examination for the year 2019-20 in January this year. Rajeswari and Rohini brought laurels to the school by securing 93 and 88 percent marks respectively and became eligible for the monthly stipend of Rs 1000.
Head master of the school M Saravana Vel said that such a felicitation will encourage other students to work hard and achieve laurels in their lives. “We trained 12 students for the examination from our school and Rajeswari and Rohini managed to clear the test. We wanted to honour the students for the hard work and dedication and decided to release postage stamps with thumb nail image of students’”
The personalised stamp is a scheme of India Post where anyone can have their image in selected template sheets having postage stamps.
Rajeswari and Rohini said that clearing NMMS has given them confidence to prepare for competitive examinations in future.